What we do

People-centred – Through short-term parking they promote convenience for people choosing to travel by car to shop, visit or do business. Through long-term parking they provide convenience for people choosing to travel by car for work or extended business or leisure in the city.

Connected – They allow people choosing to travel by car to connect with people and places in the central city for businesses, work or leisure.

Dynamic central city – By encouraging people to travel into the central city, they enhance its vibrancy and promote retail and other business activity.

We introduced ‘taxi restricted parking areas’ on Mercer Street, Featherston Street, Lambton Quay, Waring Taylor Street and The Terrace in response to public concern over taxis monopolising public parking spaces in the vicinity of heavily used taxi stands.

​We added Snapper as a payment option on 600 pay and display machines covering 3000 parks in the central business district.

To ensure people can access the central city and its amenities, we provide convenient on-street parking throughout the central city. We monitor this by measuring daily parking turnover rates and compliance with parking regulations.

Residents’ satisfaction with the availability of on-street car parking

Source: WCC Residents’ Monitoring Survey 2013

There is no explanation other than a change in the methodology to why satisfaction with parking availability in the weekends has dropped substantially. The parking meter fleet has been updated with more payment options, and time restrictions are now enforced on Sundays resulting in increased turnover of parking spaces.

Residents’ perceptions (%) that parking enforcement is fair

Result: 33% of residents believe that parking enforcement is fair (target: this is a new measure so there is no target. Next year the target will be to increase on this year’s result).